I am glad you feel that way...but that wwill depend on the composition of the congress.

If the choice is between a Ginsberg and a Scalia.

the answer is DUH

...pigs like Scalia are hijacking our democratic republic, stripping us of our civil liberties, bankrupting our country with unending wars, filling our cities and towns with injured and ill soldiers being denied the medical care they EARNED in the call to duty.

So you've seen a little bit of the frustration that has built up over the past seven years from Americans who had the right to rely upon our congress to check this evil administration but abdicated.

Maybe you live in a different America than the one I live in.  Maybe there aren't any people suffering where you are -- or if so, do you care?

If you aren't angry, you're not paying attention.  I read that on a bumpersticker or Kossack signature.  

Republicans have been playing that faux civility card from Day One of the Bushcon administration.  I'm not playing nice with these goons.  They're NOT nice people.  

that the overall tone and quality of the discussion has deteriorated on dKos, and the worst in people is  sometimes encouraged even by the front page.  There have always been acrimonious periods and a frat boy tone, but I find the current situation the hardest to deal with and the longest to endure.  

From your UID it's apparent we've been registered users for about the same time.  You must remember the bitter fights involving Armando and Mary Scott O'Connor.  And I too notice that  names I used to see fairly often are no longer popping up here, and I also see many of them on other, smaller, more civil blogs.  I hang around for some of the especially good contributors and try to skip a lot of the rest.

So, I hope I didn't confirm your worst feelings about what's going on at dKos with my comment above, but to me it contributed to the escalation of language.  The comments about Hillary's presentation were petty and childish, but I save the word hate for worse than that.

Peace.

wasn't using you in the singular sense, but in the general.  I should have used 'one'.

Yes, I've read that diary already, and I generally strive to be a similar voice.  My uid might be high, but I've actually been here off and on for several years at least.  I missed the bitterness 4 yrs ago, but I agree that the fighting of late has been rancorous beyond anything I'd seen before, as peoples' passions run high and their tempers shorten.

The annoying thing about replying to a comment from the comment page, rather than the diary, is that you don't see the original comment you commented under (unless I've got myself configured wrong and you're supposed to be able to.)  But I think, I think I was trying to say that the reality is that most people posting here aren't as hateful or violently angry as posts might imply.  People are posting quickly, while their adrenaline is up, missing nuances and assuming that everything unclear is a dig or slight and responding with more anger to everything.  Given that I think this particular comment was under the Scalia thread, I agree that people have every right to be angry that the country we love has so many people in power who seem to have fallen to 'the Dark Side'.  But hatred itself is from the Dark Side.  We need to funnel our anger in ways that it pushes society back to the light.  (And now I have an urge to speak my sentences backwards.)

There are so many familiar names that pop in and out that I personally have a hard time noticing when a specific one drops out for a while, as my memory isn't the best.  Hopefully the folks who have dropped out will return after the nominee is chosen.